Book :: A Clockwork Orange
| By: | Anthony Burgess |
| Pages: | 213 |
| Published: | 1962 |
| Genre(s): | Science Fiction |
| Dystopia | |
| Horror | |
| Rating: | (20) |
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A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions. A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has since become a classic of modern literature and the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s...
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red13x
A good read, a little hard with the lingo at times, but you get used to it. Definitely recommended.
Oct 25th, 2014
Caro60
This book is chilling in its depiction of pleasure gained from unprovoked violence. Equally chilling is the programming of Alex to be nauseated to the point of suicide by not only violence but his beloved music. The book makes you question the values of Alex, the "hoolingan" but also the values of a society that thinks it is acceptable to take away free will - neither of these extremes is acceptable.
Sep 22nd, 2014
aliveironically
While I do very much like this book, it can be hard to follow. This is one of the few books that seeing the movie will kind of help you out with reading it. Still a fun read, though.
Apr 19th, 2014
A Clockwork Orange appears on these lists...
79th on The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review
65th on 100 Best Novels by Modern Library
49th on Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe
27th on Books of the Century by Waterstone
42nd on Top 100 Books by Newsweek
